Friday, January 31, 2014

The Gould Law Library is offering all students a chance to win a $25 iTunes gift card!

To win, all you have to do is come to the Law Library Circulation Desk and pick up an official entry form. There are three legal trivia questions to answer. For every question correctly answered, your name will be entered as an official entry into a drawing. You only need to answer one question to enter, but if you answer all three, you get three entries to win! Each correct answer equals one entry. Even if submitting three entries, you only need to fill out the one form.

Return your entry to the Circulation Desk. The contest closes at 11:45 p.m. on February 13, 2014. On February 14, 2014, a winner will be selected by the Gould Law Library Staff through a lottery drawing of official entries. The prize awarded will be a $25 gift card to iTunes.
Entries may only be submitted by current law students of Touro Law Center. Employees and alumni of Touro Law Center, Friends of the Library, and guests are not eligible for entry.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

We are so pleased to announce that Touro Law Center has launched a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the SSRN Legal Scholarship Network. Here is the official announcement, directly from the SSRN website:

Touro Law Center's (http://www.tourolaw.edu)
outstanding faculty is comprised of approximately 50 full-time members who are
actively engaged in research, making noteworthy contributions to legal
scholarship and law reform. Touro Law Center's Legal Studies eJournal contains
scholarship from this faculty. They bring talent and experience to the
classroom as well as a genuine passion for, and commitment to, teaching, as
well as to innovation in the training of future lawyers. They are uniquely
dedicated to the success of the student body - priding themselves on their
accessibility to students while creating an open and cooperative learning
environment that is dynamic and enriching.

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
You can subscribe to the eJournal at no cost, by clicking on the
"Subscribe" link listed above.

You can change your eJournal subscriptions by logging into SSRN User HQ. If you have any problems, please contact us for assistance by email:
Support@SSRN.com or by
phone: 877-SSRNHelp (877 777 6435) in the United States, or +1 585 442 8170
outside of the United States. We are open Monday through Friday between the
hours of 8:30AM and 6:00PM, United States Eastern.

SSRN's eLIBRARY
SSRN's searchable electronic library contains abstracts, full bibliographic
data, and author contact information for more than 526,500 papers, more than
244,300 authors, and full text for more than 431,700 papers. The eLibrary can
be accessed at http://papers.ssrn.com.

SSRN supports open access by allowing authors to upload papers to the eLibrary
for free through the SSRN User HeadQuarters at http://hq.ssrn.com, and by
providing free downloading of those papers.

Downloads from the SSRN eLibrary in the past 12 months total more than 10.8
million, with more than 72.5 million downloads since inception.

SSRN's PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
Searching on an individual's name in the author field on our search page at http://ssrn.com/search
provides the best single professional directory of scholars in the social
sciences and humanities. Complete contact information for authors, including
email, postal, telephone, and fax information, is available there.

SSRN's MISSION
SSRN's objective is to provide rapid, worldwide distribution of research to
authors and their readers and to facilitate communication among them at the
lowest possible cost. In pursuit of this objective, we allow authors to upload
papers without charge. And, any paper an author uploads to SSRN is downloadable
for free, worldwide.

LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP NETWORK
The Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) distributes other eJournals. You can subscribe
to these eJournals through the SSRN User HeadQuarters at http://hq.ssrn.com.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

This week, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we are highlighting a few new books in our collection that address Dr. King’s work and the Civil Rights movement. These books focus on a range of issues and time spans, and they reflect just a few of the works on this important topic that we have available for our students, faculty, alumni, and friends.

The author, a Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University, delves into the economic impact of the civil rights movement upon the American South and the people who live and work there.

The author looks at the choice of civil rights organizations to use the strategy of deliberate imprisonment during the civil rights movement and the effectiveness of the strategy in bringing attention to the cause.

The discussion in this book centers upon the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 within its historical context, and to where the road of jurisprudence that evolved from that Act has led us, as a nation, in the present day.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Welcome back to a new spring semester! Here at the Gould Law Library, we are ready to welcome you back to a new semester filled with promise. As the new semester begins, we thought we would share some new resources, or some ideas about resources to try anew.

This Tuesday, January 14, 2014, the New York State Court of Appeals will be hearing oral argument on two criminal case appeals. Oral argument begins at approximately 2:45 p.m. For all of you interested in practicing criminal law, this is one oral argument you do not want to miss. The two cases being argued are People v. Thomas and People v. Aveni, and both address the issue of the constitutional limits to which a police officer can deceive a suspect in order to secure a confession. You can read more about these cases and this issue here. (If you are off – campus, please log into TLC Web to view.)

You can also read the briefs filed by the parties and the amicus curiae by using this search engine, which is available to the public for free: https://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/courtpass/Docket.aspx (Searching by party name will bring up the docket and filed documents for the case.)

Better yet - you don’t have to be in Albany to see the oral argument! Did you know that you can view oral arguments live, via Windows Media Player, at the New York State Court of Appeals website? Visit here: http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/ and click on this link:

You can also view past webcasts of recent oral arguments before the Court at the same link.